The Statute of the Man in the Modern Catholic Anthropology Essay

The Statute of the Man in the Modern Catholic AnthropologyABSTRACT In what follows, I examine the metempsychosis of the conceit of freedom as a fundamental measure of homo in the work of Karol Voitila (Pope John Paul II). I examine as well Karol Voitilas concept of the world person as found in his work Love and Responsibility as well as the encyclical Evangelium vitae, which affirms the incomparable value of the military man person. I also consider the supernal predestination of the human person as discussed in the documents of the Second Vatican Council. The common motive in the philosophy of the Renaissance and the following centuries is the affirmation of human liberty and dignity on the base of his life on the Earth, the stress on the innate human striving for food, happiness and liberty, for universal beau ideal and entirety of the human temper, for organic unity between the spiritual and the physical.I can not disagree with Erih Fromm, who emphasizes that even in the l ate gist Ages the Catholic doctrines, and the philosophy of the Renaissance later, express the tendency to acknowledging the role of the human will and human exertion - the Catholicism is in harmony with the spirit, that dominates in the social groups, which economic status brings them the feeling of strength and independence.The Renaissance idea of freedom as a fundamental measure of human nature finishes in philosophy like Sheller and Sartr with apotheosis of the act and the constant choice. tooshie the freedom as an act is simultaneously a human capability of selfmaster, self-improvement, restraining the mean passions and motives. Freedom is also the ability to be loyal to ourselves and to our beliefs, to tense up the real creation in which th... ...izons. (See . . , 1973, . 241-242).If we try to make a compendium of the proposed in the Pastoral Constitution conception of the man, caused by the challenges off the atheism, the greatest of which is the general absence of a ny desire of after life, we could say, that this conception, even with the elements of concretness and sociality is a conception of the authentic, eternal man. That means that our thoughts must be directed to the outside world, which excels the real history and continues to be the transcendental knowledge source, the storehouse of the moralistic and social models, which permanently keep their position. (See Op. Cit, p. 244). And their durability is conditioned by our connective with God, which is now made actual due to the mediation of Jesus rescuer and the present growth of man in Jesus Christ.....